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== 2017/07/08 - Happy Birthday ArchWiki ==

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Hey everybody, today the ArchWiki turns 12! You can try to sing Happy Birthday to your screen, but it's unlikely that our server will understand your good-hearted feelings... As an alternative, try to make a small gift edit, it's very easy, and if you don't know how to do it, [[ArchWiki:Contributing]] can give you some inspiration :) Many thanks to all those who spent some of their time here during the last year, let's all keep supporting this project!!

The [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team|Maintenance Team]] gains new blood in the form of [[User:Edh]], [[User:Francoism]], and [[User:nl6720]] (in alphabetical order). Your continuous efforts to improve ArchWiki are more than appreciated — not only by the maintenance team, but by a wide range of GNU/Linux users which benefit from our wiki every day. Thanks!

Today the wiki celebrates 11 years of activity, an amazing accomplishment for a project that is kept alive solely by volunteer contributions! As it has always been, there's a lot [[Special:RecentChanges|going on]] even right now while you're reading: in particular you should be aware that the [[Beginners' guide]] and the [[Installation guide]] are just about to be unified into a single article, after years of attempts and small shifts towards this goal; if you want to participate, see what's happening in [[Talk:Beginners' guide]], and possibly also refer to the [https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-July/028140.html mailing-list thread] or the special wiki birthday [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214373 forum thread]. And don't forget the brand-new [[ArchWiki:IRC|#archlinux-wiki]] channel if you feel more at ease on IRC.

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If you have ever authored an edit in any of our thousands articles, even if only once, even if only to make a small correction, '''thank you'''!!! The value of this work is the sum of innumerable small contributions from people who don't follow the "somebody else will fix it" philosophy: most people here are not PhD's in Computer Science, we simply share a passion for Arch Linux, the broader FOSS community and pretty much anything related to the digital computing world, therefore if you think this sounds like you but you've never bothered creating an account, take the few seconds needed to [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup do it now], and start sharing your skills and knowledge, whatever their size is; you will find that the more you [[ArchWiki:Contributing|contribute]], the more you will learn and improve yourself too, so it's a win-win choice ;)

ArchWiki now has a dedicated IRC channel to ask questions surrounding articles, and the wiki itself. Please join us at '''#archlinux-wiki''' on [http://freenode.net freenode], of course always keeping the [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The_3_fundamental_rules|three fundamental rules]] in mind when editing the wiki. For more information, see [[ArchWiki:IRC]].

The ArchWiki has thousands of articles, and hundreds of different users edit it every month: keeping the whole project together, ensuring that it always sails in strict accordance to Arch's principles, is a task that requires a great deal of organizational work behind the scenes. As an official Maintainer for a long time, [[User:Indigo|Indigo]] has gained plenty of experience, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of how the wiki is structured and regulated by its internal policies, therefore today he is officially promoted to the Administration Team, granting him full power to unleash all his skills where needed :) Thank you for your hard work!

During these days you may be finding it impossible at times to register a new account: this is deliberately done by the staff due to maintenance necessities, not a bug to be reported. If you are affected by this issue, please try registering again every few hours, until successful. Trying our best to restore the service to full and continuous operation as quickly as possible, we truly apologize for this inconvenience.

As a result of their long-term commitment and valuable contributions, [[User:Det|Det]], [[User:Kycok|Kycok]], [[User:Neitsab|Neitsab]] and [[User:Silverhammermba|Silverhammermba]] (in alphabetical order) have entered the official [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]]. Thank you for your help!

Exactly 10 years ago, on July 8th 2005, the ArchWiki was [[ArchWiki:About#History|installed]] with the MediaWiki engine: since then,

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more than [[Special:Statistics|20,000]] users created their account and made almost 400,000 edits that evolved the initial blank page into this fantastic

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documentation resource that innumerable Arch and non-Arch Linux users every day browse from all around the world.

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For the future, several major improvements are already under discussion or planning in various talk pages, with

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[[Help talk:I18n#Language namespace(s) in place of suffixes?]], [[ArchWiki:Requests#Should we remove or archive obsolete articles?]] or

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[[ArchWiki talk:Maintenance Team#Reorganization]] being only some notable examples. For this anniversary, [[ArchWiki:Statistics]]

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If you did not make it to get involved in the community of contributors in the past decade, you are very welcome to become one of the first ones of the decade

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that has just started! The wiki syntax is very easy to learn and use, you can find an introduction in [[Help:Editing]], and [[ArchWiki:Contributing]] is there to

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Well, Happy Birthday ArchWiki, then! The celebrations will go on until the weekend, as for example the 11th is the anniversary of the first edit: if you want, you can take this chance to make a small gift edit to your favorite article ;) Let's keep working together to make this project grow better and better for the next 10 years and more, thanks everybody!

[[Template:AUR]] has been restyled with the addition of an "AUR" superscript to make AUR packages look different from official ones: this has the consequence that almost all articles mentioning AUR packages now have a redundant "from the [[AUR]]" wording that needs to be removed. In the same fashion, the "from the [[official repositories]]" wording associated to official packages is deprecated.

Describing how to install a package is still forbidden by [[Help:Style#Package management instructions]] but, for both official and AUR packages, you can use the "install" word as a link, e.g. {{ic|<nowiki>[[Install]]</nowiki>}}, to point users to the [[install|centralized package installation instructions]].

Describing how to install a package is still forbidden by [[Help:Style#Package management instructions]] but, for both official and AUR packages, you can use the "install" word as a link, e.g. {{ic|<nowiki>[[Install]]</nowiki>}}, to point users to the [[install|centralized package installation instructions]].

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This change was discussed and voted in [[Help talk:Style#Pkg and AUR templates: add icon, make them look different]].|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 02:41, 24 May 2015 (UTC)}}

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This change was discussed and voted in [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Help_talk:Style&direction=prev&oldid=380274#Pkg_and_AUR_templates:_add_icon.2C_make_them_look_different Help talk:Style#Pkg and AUR templates: add icon, make them look different].

{{News|2015/04/24 - New administrator|Congratulations to [[User:Alad|Alad]] on his promotion to [[ArchWiki:Administrators|Administrator]], naturally following his long streak of exemplary contributions to the articles and proactive, all-round participation in the organization of the wiki, which will now be able to benefit even more greatly from the experience he gained while serving as an official Maintainer.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 13:53, 24 April 2015 (UTC)}}

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Congratulations to [[User:Alad|Alad]] on his promotion to [[ArchWiki:Administrators|Administrator]], naturally following his long streak of exemplary contributions to the articles and proactive, all-round participation in the organization of the wiki, which will now be able to benefit even more greatly from the experience he gained while serving as an official Maintainer.

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{{News|2015/04/19 - New maintainer|Today the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] gains the help of [[User:Chazza|Chazza]], who distinguished himself for the quality of his work in the wiki, thank you!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 03:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)}}

{{News|2014/12/22 - Adopt an article|The ingredients of a healthy and successful wiki are both the addition of fresh, up-to-date content (the "attack"), but also protection from counter-productive edits (the "defense"). While "attacking" may be the most entertaining part, please be aware that helping "defend" the ArchWiki is of invaluable importance and fortunately also extremely easy! Just add a bunch of your favorite articles to your ''watchlist'' and follow their changes, taking action when necessary: the wiki will receive your love with gratitude :) See [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The most important task]] for a more extensive introduction.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 15:13, 22 December 2014 (UTC)}}

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== 2015/04/19 - New maintainer ==

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{{News|2014/10/31 - Unintelligible edits|This news entry is a reminder that edits that do not respect [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules|the 3 fundamental contributing rules]] may be reverted without previous warning, especially on popular articles. The ArchWiki is a ''shared'' resource within the Arch community, and users who do not understand this concept, and treat wiki articles like they would with their own personal blog, are invited to spend their time somewhere else. Thank you for choosing to respect your fellow Archers, keep up the good work everybody!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 14:48, 31 October 2014 (UTC)}}

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Today the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] gains the help of [[User:Chazza|Chazza]], who distinguished himself for the quality of his work in the wiki, thank you!

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{{News|2014/08/03 - New administrator|With great pleasure we announce that [[User:Lahwaacz|Lahwaacz]] has gained his seat at the [[ArchWiki:Administrators|command table]], very well deserved after tirelessly serving our community with more than a year of innumerable, high-quality contributions that have certainly played a big part in the continuous effort we all make to preserve the ArchWiki as one of the best Linux documentation sources currently available. Congratulations!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 02:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)}}

{{News|2014/07/20 - New maintainers|Today the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] can count on the contribution of two new users: [[User:Alad|Alad]] and [[User:Indigo|Indigo]]. Thank you for the effort you are spending on the wiki!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 07:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)}}

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== 2014/12/22 - Adopt an article ==

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{{News|2014/03/13 - New maintainer|We are happy to announce that [[User:Lonaowna|Lonaowna]] has joined forces with the other members of the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]]. Keep up the good work!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 11:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)}}

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The ingredients of a healthy and successful wiki are both the addition of fresh, up-to-date content (the "attack"), but also protection from counter-productive edits (the "defense"). While "attacking" may be the most entertaining part, please be aware that helping "defend" the ArchWiki is of invaluable importance and fortunately also extremely easy! Just add a bunch of your favorite articles to your ''watchlist'' and follow their changes, taking action when necessary: the wiki will receive your love with gratitude :) See [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The most important task]] for a more extensive introduction.

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{{News|2013/12/09 - Code templates are fixed|[[Template:bc]] and [[Template:hc]] have been adapted to work like before they [[#2013/12/08 - MediaWiki 1.22.0 has broken code templates|broke]]. No fixes are required anymore.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 05:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)}}

{{News|2013/12/08 - MediaWiki 1.22.0 has broken code templates|2=After [https://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/wiki.archlinux.org.git/commit/?id=4ac9fa081a7c045f6a9f1cfc529d82423f485b2e upgrading] MediaWiki to version 1.22.0, the wiki will not parse wiki syntax or HTML code inside [[Template:bc]] and [[Template:hc]] anymore, rendering them as plain text. This has broken many templates around, especially those that were using {{ic|<nowiki>''</nowiki>}} and {{ic|<nowiki>'''</nowiki>}} for highlighting parts of code with italic or bold. Please help fixing them, guidelines for dealing with the various cases are a work in progress.|3=[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 11:39, 8 December 2013 (UTC)}}

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== 2014/10/31 - Unintelligible edits ==

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{{News|2013/08/05 - New maintainer|A new user, [[User:Lahwaacz|Lahwaacz]], has joined the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team|official Maintenance Team]]: our community is thankful for the quality and accuracy of his contributions.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 10:28, 5 August 2013 (UTC)}}

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This news entry is a reminder that edits that do not respect [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules|the 3 fundamental contributing rules]] may be reverted without previous warning, especially on popular articles. The ArchWiki is a ''shared'' resource within the Arch community, and users who do not understand this concept, and treat wiki articles like they would with their own personal blog, are invited to spend their time somewhere else. Thank you for choosing to respect your fellow Archers, keep up the good work everybody!

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{{News|2013/06/15 - New maintainer|The [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team|official Maintenance Team]] sees the addition of a new member: thank you [[User:Flu|Flu]], your commitment will be of great help for our wiki.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 13:52, 15 June 2013 (UTC)}}

{{News|2013/05/02 - New administrator|The ArchWiki proudly welcomes a new administrator, [[User:Fengchao|Fengchao]], whose passionate dedication to our community we have been able to witness over the past several months: thank you! We are confident this will give our beloved, ever-growing wiki an important help in maintenance and moderation for the times to come.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 11:01, 2 May 2013 (UTC)}}

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== 2014/08/03 - New administrator ==

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{{News|2012/06/11 - Changes in internationalization|In the next few days [[Template:i18n]] will be deprecated and replaced by interlanguage links (e.g. {{ic|<nowiki>[[en:Title]]</nowiki>}}) also for the languages hosted locally. This operation will be completely performed by a [[User:Kynikos.bot|bot]], please do not attempt to "help" it with manual edits, as it is necessary to follow a particular procedure and you would risk compromising its operations. The original discussion is in [[Help talk:I18n#"Dummy" interlanguage links and deprecation of Template:i18n]].|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 21:18, 11 June 2012 (UTC)}}

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With great pleasure we announce that [[User:Lahwaacz|Lahwaacz]] has gained his seat at the [[ArchWiki:Administrators|command table]], very well deserved after tirelessly serving our community with more than a year of innumerable, high-quality contributions that have certainly played a big part in the continuous effort we all make to preserve the ArchWiki as one of the best Linux documentation sources currently available. Congratulations!

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{{News|2012/06/06 - Maintenance team additions|We announce that also [[User:Filam|Filam]], [[User:Emiralle|Emiralle]] and [[User:Jstjohn|jstjohn]] have joined the group of [[ArchWiki:Maintainers|Maintainers]]: the ArchWiki is thankful for their contributions so far!|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 19:46, 6 June 2012 (UTC)}}

{{News|2012/05/20 - Maintenance team|An official team of users has been created with the purpose of helping supervising the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] and fixing the resulting [[ArchWiki:Reports|reports]]. See [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] for more information. Thanks to the initial [[ArchWiki:Maintainers|Maintainers]] (in alphabetical order) [[User:AlexanderR|AlexanderR]], [[User:Fengchao|Fengchao]], [[User:Graysky|Graysky]] and [[User:Skydiver|Skydiver]], who have been chosen for their constant commitment and the accuracy and quality of their work on the ArchWiki.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 12:47, 20 May 2012 (UTC)}}

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== 2014/07/20 - New maintainers ==

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{{News|2011/11/01 - Official style guidelines|An official set of style rules is now defined in [[Help:Style]] in order to improve the consistency of content formatting among the various articles: all ArchWiki contributors are encouraged to read these guidelines and follow them when editing articles.|[[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] 12:14, 1 November 2011 (EDT)}}

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Today the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] can count on the contribution of two new users: [[User:Alad|Alad]] and [[User:Indigo|Indigo]]. Thank you for the effort you are spending on the wiki!

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{{News|2011/09/20 - Administration team additions|Congratulations to the two newest additions to the [[ArchWiki:Administrators|ArchWiki administration team]]: [[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] and [[User:thestinger|thestinger]]. Over the past year, both have demonstrated dedication and exceptional judgment in maintaining and improving ArchWiki. Their contributions have undoubtedly helped thousands of (Arch and non-Arch) Linux users and served to render ArchWiki one of the best sources of GNU/Linux documentation on the web. Thank you!|[[User:Pointone|pointone]] 15:37, 20 September 2011 (EDT)}}

{{News|2011/05/29 - A reminder|Please completely avoid the use of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar) contractions] and keep the language formal. Thanks!|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 19:38, 29 May 2011 (EDT)}}

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== 2014/03/13 - New maintainer ==

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{{News|2010/03/27 - Thank you, ArchWiki contributors|Thanks to everyone for their invaluable contributions to ArchWiki. Its content and reputation have been and continue to be second to none. Please keep the knowledge flowing in.|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 12:37, 27 March 2010 (EDT)}}

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We are happy to announce that [[User:Lonaowna|Lonaowna]] has joined forces with the other members of the [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]]. Keep up the good work!

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{{News|1=2010/01/14 - Internationalization guidelines|2=As you may have noticed, many articles have been moving around this past month; especially non-English ones. This was due to a recent discussion on the topic of ArchWiki internationalization. As a result, new guidelines have been drafted and a major transition has begun.

After [https://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/wiki.archlinux.org.git/commit/?id=4ac9fa081a7c045f6a9f1cfc529d82423f485b2e upgrading] MediaWiki to version 1.22.0, the wiki will not parse wiki syntax or HTML code inside [[Template:bc]] and [[Template:hc]] anymore, rendering them as plain text. This has broken many templates around, especially those that were using {{ic|<nowiki>''</nowiki>}} and {{ic|<nowiki>'''</nowiki>}} for highlighting parts of code with italic or bold. Please help fixing them, guidelines for dealing with the various cases are a work in progress.

The ArchWiki proudly welcomes a new administrator, [[User:Fengchao|Fengchao]], whose passionate dedication to our community we have been able to witness over the past several months: thank you! We are confident this will give our beloved, ever-growing wiki an important help in maintenance and moderation for the times to come.

In the next few days [[Template:I18n]] will be deprecated and replaced by interlanguage links (e.g. {{ic|<nowiki>[[en:Title]]</nowiki>}}) also for the languages hosted locally. This operation will be completely performed by a [[User:Kynikos.bot|bot]], please do not attempt to "help" it with manual edits, as it is necessary to follow a particular procedure and you would risk compromising its operations. The original discussion is in [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Help_talk:I18n&direction=prev&oldid=215134#.22Dummy.22_interlanguage_links_and_deprecation_of_Template:i18n "Dummy" interlanguage links and deprecation of Template:i18n].

An official team of users has been created with the purpose of helping supervising the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] and fixing the resulting [[ArchWiki:Reports|reports]]. See [[ArchWiki:Maintenance Team]] for more information. Thanks to the initial [[Maintainers]] (in alphabetical order) [[User:AlexanderR|AlexanderR]], [[User:Fengchao|Fengchao]], [[User:Graysky|Graysky]] and [[User:Skydiver|Skydiver]], who have been chosen for their constant commitment and the accuracy and quality of their work on the ArchWiki.

An official set of style rules is now defined in [[Help:Style]] in order to improve the consistency of content formatting among the various articles: all ArchWiki contributors are encouraged to read these guidelines and follow them when editing articles.

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Congratulations to the two newest additions to the [[ArchWiki:Administrators|ArchWiki administration team]]: [[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] and [[User:thestinger|thestinger]]. Over the past year, both have demonstrated dedication and exceptional judgment in maintaining and improving ArchWiki. Their contributions have undoubtedly helped thousands of (Arch and non-Arch) Linux users and served to render ArchWiki one of the best sources of GNU/Linux documentation on the web. Thank you!

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== 2011/05/29 - A reminder ==

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== 2010/03/27 - Thank you, ArchWiki contributors ==

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For more detail, please see the related [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87189 forum thread] and [[Help:i18n]]. Briefly, the following standards have been set:

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== 2008/09/21 - The finest GNU/Linux distribution wiki ==

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The recent boost in wiki contribution has been nothing short of miraculous. Thanks to everyone contributing and improving ArchWiki. Informative and well written articles, as well as gratuitous translations, are coming in at an alarming rate. Because of you, word is spreading about Arch Linux, its high quality wiki and its excellent community!

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{{News|2009/01/04 - Article categories!|Please remember to add your contributed articles to the appropriate category at the top of the page. This will streamline the search process and make use of the [[Table of contents]] system in place. Thanks!|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 12:33, 4 January 2009 (EST)}}

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{{News|2008/09/21 - The finest GNU/Linux distribution wiki|Thanks to your vigilant dedication and contribution, the Arch Linux wiki remains the finest available. It continues to grow and improve in quality daily. Nothing negative to report, just keep up the great work.|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 12:55, 21 September 2008 (EDT)}}

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{{News|2008/07/22 - Thank you, Arch users|The recent boost in wiki contribution has been nothing short of miraculous. Thanks to everyone contributing and improving ArchWiki. Informative and well written articles, as well as gratuitous translations, are coming in at an alarming rate. Because of you, word is spreading about Arch Linux, its high quality wiki and its excellent community!|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 20:28, 22 July 2008 (EDT)}}

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{{News|2008/05/01 - Don't just give me the 'how' - give me the 'why'|A wiki is a collection of knowledge, most of which ends up being how-tos, which is to be expected. Let us always remember to add the 'why' to our how-tos. Explanatory information always goes further toward imparting knowledge than does instruction alone. Adding explanatory wiki articles is also welcome. Why not add one if you are qualified?

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{{News|2008/04/21 - ArchWiki needs YOU!|In our goal to provide the most exhaustive high-quality documentation, Arch is calling all qualified users to contribute to the wiki. Share your knowledge and help us improve this invaluable free resource.|[[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 18:03, 21 April 2008 (EDT)}}

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— [[User:Misfit138|Misfit138]] 18:03, 21 April 2008 (EDT)

Revision as of 16:28, 11 September 2017

2017/07/08 - Happy Birthday ArchWiki

Hey everybody, today the ArchWiki turns 12! You can try to sing Happy Birthday to your screen, but it's unlikely that our server will understand your good-hearted feelings... As an alternative, try to make a small gift edit, it's very easy, and if you don't know how to do it, ArchWiki:Contributing can give you some inspiration :) Many thanks to all those who spent some of their time here during the last year, let's all keep supporting this project!!

2017/06/29 - New maintainer

2016/10/05 - New maintainers

The Maintenance Team gains new blood in the form of User:Edh, User:Francoism, and User:nl6720 (in alphabetical order). Your continuous efforts to improve ArchWiki are more than appreciated — not only by the maintenance team, but by a wide range of GNU/Linux users which benefit from our wiki every day. Thanks!

2016/07/08 - 11 years of ArchWiki

Today the wiki celebrates 11 years of activity, an amazing accomplishment for a project that is kept alive solely by volunteer contributions! As it has always been, there's a lot going on even right now while you're reading: in particular you should be aware that the Beginners' guide and the Installation guide are just about to be unified into a single article, after years of attempts and small shifts towards this goal; if you want to participate, see what's happening in Talk:Beginners' guide, and possibly also refer to the mailing-list thread or the special wiki birthday forum thread. And don't forget the brand-new #archlinux-wiki channel if you feel more at ease on IRC.

If you have ever authored an edit in any of our thousands articles, even if only once, even if only to make a small correction, thank you!!! The value of this work is the sum of innumerable small contributions from people who don't follow the "somebody else will fix it" philosophy: most people here are not PhD's in Computer Science, we simply share a passion for Arch Linux, the broader FOSS community and pretty much anything related to the digital computing world, therefore if you think this sounds like you but you've never bothered creating an account, take the few seconds needed to do it now, and start sharing your skills and knowledge, whatever their size is; you will find that the more you contribute, the more you will learn and improve yourself too, so it's a win-win choice ;)

2016/05/22 - IRC channel

ArchWiki now has a dedicated IRC channel to ask questions surrounding articles, and the wiki itself. Please join us at #archlinux-wiki on freenode, of course always keeping the three fundamental rules in mind when editing the wiki. For more information, see ArchWiki:IRC.

2016/05/15 - New administrator

The ArchWiki has thousands of articles, and hundreds of different users edit it every month: keeping the whole project together, ensuring that it always sails in strict accordance to Arch's principles, is a task that requires a great deal of organizational work behind the scenes. As an official Maintainer for a long time, Indigo has gained plenty of experience, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of how the wiki is structured and regulated by its internal policies, therefore today he is officially promoted to the Administration Team, granting him full power to unleash all his skills where needed :) Thank you for your hard work!

2016/02/03 Account creation issues

During these days you may be finding it impossible at times to register a new account: this is deliberately done by the staff due to maintenance necessities, not a bug to be reported. If you are affected by this issue, please try registering again every few hours, until successful. Trying our best to restore the service to full and continuous operation as quickly as possible, we truly apologize for this inconvenience.

2015/07/08 - ArchWiki turns 10!

Exactly 10 years ago, on July 8th 2005, the ArchWiki was installed with the MediaWiki engine: since then,
more than 20,000 users created their account and made almost 400,000 edits that evolved the initial blank page into this fantastic
documentation resource that innumerable Arch and non-Arch Linux users every day browse from all around the world.

If you did not make it to get involved in the community of contributors in the past decade, you are very welcome to become one of the first ones of the decade
that has just started! The wiki syntax is very easy to learn and use, you can find an introduction in Help:Editing, and ArchWiki:Contributing is there to
give you plenty of inspiration about how and where to start. If you have any questions, just ask in the talk page of one of those pages, or any other
that suits your specific issue, and the wiki staff, or possibly other proactive users, will try their best to give you a quick and accurate answer.

Well, Happy Birthday ArchWiki, then! The celebrations will go on until the weekend, as for example the 11th is the anniversary of the first edit: if you want, you can take this chance to make a small gift edit to your favorite article ;) Let's keep working together to make this project grow better and better for the next 10 years and more, thanks everybody!

2015/05/24 - Restyled AUR template

Template:AUR has been restyled with the addition of an "AUR" superscript to make AUR packages look different from official ones: this has the consequence that almost all articles mentioning AUR packages now have a redundant "from the AUR" wording that needs to be removed. In the same fashion, the "from the official repositories" wording associated to official packages is deprecated.

2015/04/24 - New administrator

Congratulations to Alad on his promotion to Administrator, naturally following his long streak of exemplary contributions to the articles and proactive, all-round participation in the organization of the wiki, which will now be able to benefit even more greatly from the experience he gained while serving as an official Maintainer.

2015/04/19 - New maintainer

2014/12/22 - Adopt an article

The ingredients of a healthy and successful wiki are both the addition of fresh, up-to-date content (the "attack"), but also protection from counter-productive edits (the "defense"). While "attacking" may be the most entertaining part, please be aware that helping "defend" the ArchWiki is of invaluable importance and fortunately also extremely easy! Just add a bunch of your favorite articles to your watchlist and follow their changes, taking action when necessary: the wiki will receive your love with gratitude :) See ArchWiki:Contributing#The most important task for a more extensive introduction.

2014/10/31 - Unintelligible edits

This news entry is a reminder that edits that do not respect the 3 fundamental contributing rules may be reverted without previous warning, especially on popular articles. The ArchWiki is a shared resource within the Arch community, and users who do not understand this concept, and treat wiki articles like they would with their own personal blog, are invited to spend their time somewhere else. Thank you for choosing to respect your fellow Archers, keep up the good work everybody!

2014/08/03 - New administrator

With great pleasure we announce that Lahwaacz has gained his seat at the command table, very well deserved after tirelessly serving our community with more than a year of innumerable, high-quality contributions that have certainly played a big part in the continuous effort we all make to preserve the ArchWiki as one of the best Linux documentation sources currently available. Congratulations!

2013/12/09 - Code templates are fixed

2013/12/08 - MediaWiki 1.22.0 has broken code templates

After upgrading MediaWiki to version 1.22.0, the wiki will not parse wiki syntax or HTML code inside Template:bc and Template:hc anymore, rendering them as plain text. This has broken many templates around, especially those that were using '' and ''' for highlighting parts of code with italic or bold. Please help fixing them, guidelines for dealing with the various cases are a work in progress.

2013/06/15 - New maintainer

2013/05/02 - New administrator

The ArchWiki proudly welcomes a new administrator, Fengchao, whose passionate dedication to our community we have been able to witness over the past several months: thank you! We are confident this will give our beloved, ever-growing wiki an important help in maintenance and moderation for the times to come.

2012/06/11 - Changes in internationalization

In the next few days Template:I18n will be deprecated and replaced by interlanguage links (e.g. [[en:Title]]) also for the languages hosted locally. This operation will be completely performed by a bot, please do not attempt to "help" it with manual edits, as it is necessary to follow a particular procedure and you would risk compromising its operations. The original discussion is in "Dummy" interlanguage links and deprecation of Template:i18n.

2011/11/01 - Official style guidelines

An official set of style rules is now defined in Help:Style in order to improve the consistency of content formatting among the various articles: all ArchWiki contributors are encouraged to read these guidelines and follow them when editing articles.

2011/09/20 - Administration team additions

Congratulations to the two newest additions to the ArchWiki administration team: Kynikos and thestinger. Over the past year, both have demonstrated dedication and exceptional judgment in maintaining and improving ArchWiki. Their contributions have undoubtedly helped thousands of (Arch and non-Arch) Linux users and served to render ArchWiki one of the best sources of GNU/Linux documentation on the web. Thank you!

2010/01/14 - Internationalization guidelines

As you may have noticed, many articles have been moving around this past month; especially non-English ones. This was due to a recent discussion on the topic of ArchWiki internationalization. As a result, new guidelines have been drafted and a major transition has begun.

For more detail, please see the related forum thread and Help:i18n. Briefly, the following standards have been set:

Non-English article titles should be of the form Title in English (Language), where "Language" is the localized spelling of the language.

Localized titles can and should still be created, but only as redirects to the English-named article.

Template:I18n should be used in place of the old Template:i18n links start, Template:i18n entry, and Template:i18n links end combination.

We hope this does not alienate or inconvenience international users; these changes were made primarily to facilitate wiki maintenance and administration and to simplify inter-language linking. Thanks for all your translations and other contributions thus far, and please continue making ArchWiki the envy of distributions world-wide!

2009/09/18 - Remember to keep it formal

2009/01/04 - Article categories!

Please remember to add your contributed articles to the appropriate category at the top of the page. This will streamline the search process and make use of the Table of contents system in place. Thanks!

2008/09/21 - The finest GNU/Linux distribution wiki

Thanks to your vigilant dedication and contribution, the Arch Linux wiki remains the finest available. It continues to grow and improve in quality daily. Nothing negative to report, just keep up the great work.

2008/07/22 - Thank you, Arch users

The recent boost in wiki contribution has been nothing short of miraculous. Thanks to everyone contributing and improving ArchWiki. Informative and well written articles, as well as gratuitous translations, are coming in at an alarming rate. Because of you, word is spreading about Arch Linux, its high quality wiki and its excellent community!

2008/05/01 - Don't just give me the 'how' - give me the 'why'

A wiki is a collection of knowledge, most of which ends up being how-tos, which is to be expected. Let us always remember to add the 'why' to our how-tos. Explanatory information always goes further toward imparting knowledge than does instruction alone. Adding explanatory wiki articles is also welcome. Why not add one if you are qualified?

Thanks for the recent increase in contribution to the wiki! Please keep the knowledge coming.

2008/04/21 - ArchWiki needs YOU!

In our goal to provide the most exhaustive high-quality documentation, Arch is calling all qualified users to contribute to the wiki. Share your knowledge and help us improve this invaluable free resource.